The next Ivan Allen College Graduate Student Paper Conference will be held on Friday, January 27, 2017, 8:30am-5pm, in Room 102 of the Stephen C. Hall Building, 215 Bobby Dodd Way. Georgia Tech undergraduates are welcome to attend the conference. The conference schedule is as follows:

8:30 am: Bagels and coffee

8:55 am: Opening Remarks

9:00-9:45 am: Consumers and Sustainability--Rebecca Watts Hull (HSOC), “Factors Predicting Variation in Local and Sustainable Food Procurement on US College Campuses”; Yeong Jae Kim (SPP), “Gasoline Prices, Beliefs, and Energy Efficiency”; Mallory Flowers (SPP), “The Sweet Spot: Balancing Stakeholder & Sponsor Interests in Voluntary Certifications”

9:50-10:35 am: Intellectual Property--Seok Beom Kwon (SPP) “Strategic Patent Acquisition of Patent Assertion Entities and Defensive Patent Aggregators”; Sen Yan (ECON), “Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Exports”; Elie Sung, (SPP), “The effect of the eBay case on firms' propensity to patent and type of R&D activities” 10:40am-11:25 pm: Social Capital and the Workplace Kera Allen (HSOC), “Still Some Nagging Parts: An Intersectional Study of the Computing and IT Workforce; Diana Roldan (SPP), “What Makes Foreign Born Students More Successful in Computing Science?; Qinyi Liu (ECON), “The Formation of Problem Solving Skills through Tasks”

11:30-12:00 pm: Lunch

12:05-1:25 pm: Social Values and Technological Design-- Renee Shelby (HSOC), “Wearable Technology, Shifting Bodily Paradigms, and the Dream World of Techno-Physical Feminism”; Garrett Bunyak (HSOC), “The Diffusion of the Microwave in US Society in Social Context”; Mario Bianchini (HSOC), “Training Future Comrades”; Firaz Peer (DM/LMC), “Opportunities for Design in Community Data Dashboards”

1:25-2:10 pm: Knowledge Transfer in Research and Education--Sergey Kolesnikov (SPP), “Connecting Internationalization, Research, and Economic Development: A Case Study of Georgia Tech Lorraine”; Seokkyun Woo (SPP), “Mapping the Emergence of International University Research Ventures”; Jon Schmid (INTA), “The Diffusion of Military Technology” 2:15-2:55 pm: Science Policy and Regulation--Chris Zakroff (HSOC), “Defining the Jet Age: New York City and the Regulation of Aircraft Noise Pollution”; Gyung Won Kim (SPP), “U.S. State Clean Energy Policy and Industrial Technology Adoption: Policy Impacts and Potential Assessment; Rockie Rodriguez (INTA), “From Lateran to Lasers” 2:55-3:15 pm: Afternoon Break

3:15-4:00 pm: Infrastructure--Jonah Bea-Taylor (HSOC), “Flood Control, Engineering, and Vulnerable Metropolitan Development in Houston, Miami, and Tampa, 1935-1985”; Ling-Ming Huang (HSOC), “The Taiwanese-US Relationship and the Development of Mass Transportation in Taiwan”; Konul Amrahova (SPP), “Market-implied Tax Benefits of Municipal Securities”

4:05-5:00 pm: Technology and Security--Lisa Hwang, (INTA), “Nuclear Shut Down?: A Short Term Solution to Spent Fuel Buildup in ROK”; Hamidreza Seyf (Mechanical Engineering), “Analysis of a Concentrated Solar Thermophotovoltaic System with Thermal Energy Storage”